The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

The one thing that ‚Via Dolorosa‘ has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Little things affect little minds.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

God wants to bless us where we are.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

If you give, you will be blessed.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.